Subject_1 MEMBER of PARLIAMENT. Subject_2 DIVISION VI.
Summary Complaint to the Court of Session.
Subject_3 SECT. V.
Consequence of withdrawing opposition to a complaint. What fine in a joint complaint. Complaint for bribery. Complaint for undue enrolment.
General Irvine v. John Adam of Maryburgh
1768.
July. Case No. No 268.
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By 2d Geo. II. cap. 24. § 9. junct. § 2. any person guilty of bribery, by accepting money, or other reward, for his own vote, or by corrupting others, shall, for each offence, forfeit the sum of L.500 Sterling, “to be recovered, with full costs of suit, by summary action or complaint before the Court of Session, or by prosecution before the Court of Justiciary.” Found, That in a complaint to the Court of Session upon this clause, the respondents were not entitled to insist, that a list of the witnesses to be adduced should be exhibited, or the writings to be founded on produced with the complaint, as would have been the case had they been prosecuted before the Court of Justiciary.——See Appendix.
